CAM module

Design it, then make it.

Every LutraCAD design ends in a machine. The CAM module is the part that gets it there: it turns your insoles and midsoles into finished milling toolpaths or a sliced print job, inside the same software.

It is built in and included in the price, so there is no separate CAM licence to buy and no second program for your technician to learn.

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Screenshot: toolpaths on the milling table

One design, any machine

One workflow, all included

Design and toolpath live in the same file. You draw the product, choose the machine, and the file is ready to run. Change something in the design and the toolpath follows, so a correction takes a minute instead of a round trip through a second program.

Milling

Roughing and finishing toolpaths, contour cutting, two-sided milling and 4-axis output, tuned per machine and saved as a profile you can reuse.

3D printing

Automatic slicing with printers and materials that are already set up for you, so an operator picks a product and a material rather than fifty slicer settings.

Open output

Works with any open machine that reads G-code, NC, ISO or NCP. You are not tied to one supplier's hardware, and you keep the machines you already own.

Milling

Toolpaths that suit your machine

Pick a strategy, set your cutter and your feedrates, and the module writes the file. Offset for a clean surface, spiral for a continuous path, or parallel along the long or the short side of the block. In 2D or full 3D.

Roughing pass with its own cutter, stepdown, stepover and stock to leave, plus its own tool change and spindle speed
Cutter compensation for ball nose and flat mills, with a minimum Z limit so you never cut into the table
Contour cutting, flat or layered, with support tabs so the product stays put until you take it out
Two-sided milling with an automatic flip over the X or Y axis, referenced to the table or to the pocket
Mould geometry for products that need a supporting shape around them
4-axis DuoCAM output, milling two mirrored products in one pass
Separate feedrates for the top, the bottom, the contour and the plunge, so a soft EVA block and a hard block can each run at their own pace
CNC milling machine running LutraCAD toolpaths

Your milling table

Set it up once, use it every day

A milling table in LutraCAD is a profile: table size, material height, where the zero point sits on each axis, the pockets in your fixture, and the start and end code your machine expects. Save it, and every job from then on lands in the right place.

Zero point per axis: left, centre or right, front or back, top or bottom of the material
Pockets and automatic positioning, so several products fill one block instead of one at a time
Engrave text into the job, such as the production ID, so the part on the bench matches the paperwork
Your own start and end code per section, including the roughing tool change
Export a table profile and import it on another workstation, or send it to a colleague
As many table profiles as you have machines

Screenshot: milling table with pockets and zero point

Open by default

Keep the machines you own

The module writes plain machine code, in the file format your controller expects: G-code, NC, ISO or NCP. If your machine is open, it runs. Our customers mill on ISEL machines most often, but HAAS and plenty of other brands run the same output.

Standard G-code for the majority of 3-axis machines
A dedicated ISEL dialect, written the way those controllers want it
4-axis output for DuoCAM machines
DeskProto export if that is already part of your workflow
Your own file extension and decimal precision, because not every controller reads the same thing

Machine speaking a dialect of its own? Tell us which one. Adding a dialect is a small job at our end.

Screenshot: machine and output settings

3D printing

Slicing without the slicer

Choose the printer and the material, and the software slices the design itself. The profiles behind that choice are ours: we tested them on the machine with that filament, and we keep them up to date. Your operator never has to open a slicer or work out a layer height and a temperature.

Printers and materials preconfigured, from soft TPU to rigid PP and PLA
Multi-density in one print: draw your soft, medium and hard zones and each gets its own infill
Lattice structures and gyroid infill for controlled flexibility
Belt printers too, with the production ID printed onto the product itself
The software finds the printers on your network and sends the job straight to the machine
3D printed insole sliced by the LutraCAD CAM module Lattice structure in a TPU insole

Our own slicing engine

Built for curved products

Orthopedic products are not the boxes that general slicers are written for. A shell curves in every direction, a forefoot has to flex while a heel cup does not, and a belt printer lays the whole thing down at an angle. So we wrote our own engine.

Non-planar top layers that follow the curve of an insole or a last, instead of stepping across it
Belt slicing and tilted-axis slicing, for continuous production and for angled builds
Per-region settings: paint a zone and give it its own density, its own material or its own extruder
Tree supports, bridging and overhang control, so shells come off the plate clean
Multi-extruder printing with a prime tower, for two materials in one product
Surface textures on walls and top surfaces, including your own image pattern

Screenshot: slice preview with density zones

Records and outsourcing

What happens around the job

Cutting the shape is one part of the job. The module also keeps a production record of what you made, and lets you hand the same design to someone else when the work does not belong on your own machines.

CAM registration of each production, with its own product identification
Documents for the file and for the patient, generated from your own company details
STL export for MJF, SLS and resin printing, or for sending a job to a production partner
Direct handover to Formlabs PreForm for SLS work in your own building

We do not track milling blocks by batch here. If you need that level of material traceability on the printing side, the print farm software records spool, batch number and operator for every print.

MJF printer used for outsourced production Rigid printed insole shells
Honest comparison

Built in, instead of bolted on

General CAM packages are powerful, and a machinist who lives in one can do things we do not attempt. The trade is that they know nothing about a foot. You place the model, choose the strategy, worry about the fixture, and do it again for the next patient. Our module already knows it is looking at an insole.

LutraCAD CAM module Separate CAM software
Where it lives Inside the design software, on the same file A second package, with an export step between them
Cost Included in your subscription A separate licence, often per seat
Who operates it Your technician, after a short training Someone who knows CAM
Knows the product Insoles and midsoles, with the right strategy already chosen Generic geometry, set up by you each time
Design change Adjust the design, regenerate the toolpath Export again and redo the CAM setup
Milling and printing Both, from the same design and the same screen CAM for milling, a slicer for printing, set up separately
Print settings Printers and materials tested and maintained by us Generic profiles you tune yourself
Machine support Any open machine reading G-code, NC, ISO or NCP Wide, with post-processors you configure or buy
Support One party for design, toolpaths and production questions One vendor for CAD, another for CAM

For a car part mould, take a general CAM package. For insoles all day, this is the shorter road.

Frequently asked questions

What professionals ask us before they move their production into LutraCAD. Something else on your mind? Contact us and we will talk it through.

No. It is part of the software and included in the price. Design and production are one workflow, so we do not sell them as two products.

If the machine is open and reads G-code, NC, ISO or NCP, yes. ISEL machines are the most common among our customers, HAAS and many other brands run the same output, and there is a dedicated ISEL dialect plus 4-axis DuoCAM support. Tell us what you have and we will confirm before you buy.

No. You pick the printer and the material from a list we maintain, and the software slices with settings we tested on that combination. There is no separate slicer to open and no profile to build yourself.

Yes, and that is the point of keeping both in one module. The same design can go to the mill today and to a printer tomorrow, so you can choose per job, based on the material, the lead time or whichever machine happens to be free.

Define the pockets of your fixture in the table profile and let the module position the products for you. It fills the block, mills them in one run, and can engrave the production ID next to each one so you know which is which when they come off.

Export the design as STL and send it to your partner. That is also the route for MJF, SLS and resin printing, where the machine has its own preparation software. For Formlabs SLS the module hands the files straight to PreForm.

Yes. Each production gets its own identification and the module generates documents for your file and for the patient, filled in with your company details. We do not track material batches for milling blocks. On the printing side the print farm software does record spool and batch per print.

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